# Super Bowl Halftime Show
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-halftime-show/745506
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [February 8, 2016, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-halftime-show/745506 "2016-02-08T01:32:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2016, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-halftime-show/745506/1 "2016-02-08T01:32:13Z")
OK, I’ll start it.
What is it that is making this look taped to me? I mean, I believe that it’s live, but something about the video is making it look like a taped show.
Do the people around the stage get paid to jump up and down and clap? Or are they all related to the band?
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### Author:  [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2016, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-halftime-show/745506/2 "2016-02-08T01:36:24Z")
I’ll add that the show is really, really, tedious.
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2016, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-halftime-show/745506/3 "2016-02-08T01:39:09Z")
It’s like a super-duper love fest, man!!!
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### Author:  [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2016, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-halftime-show/745506/4 "2016-02-08T01:41:36Z")
That wasn’t worthy of the Superbowl half-time show. Felt more like it belonged in the opening ceremonies of the Pan-Am Games.
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### Author:  [@chicagowhitesox1173](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chicagowhitesox1173)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2016, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-halftime-show/745506/5 "2016-02-08T01:41:51Z")
I don’t get the theme. It’s suppose to be old, present and new. Is Cold Play considered old?
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### Author:  [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2016, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-halftime-show/745506/6 "2016-02-08T01:43:17Z")
I liked it. Good energy.
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### Author:  [@Reyemile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reyemile)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2016, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-halftime-show/745506/7 "2016-02-08T01:44:12Z")
Real mish-mash between the cold-play rainbow love-fest and the Beyonce BDSM sex-fest.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2016, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-halftime-show/745506/8 "2016-02-08T01:44:20Z")
> [@chicagowhitesox1173](#):
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> I don’t get the theme. It’s suppose to be old, present and new. Is Cold Play considered old?
1. Yes.
😃
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2016, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-halftime-show/745506/9 "2016-02-08T01:47:39Z")
> [@Frank](#):
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> OK, I’ll start it.
>
> What is it that is making this look taped to me? I mean, I believe that it’s live, but something about the video is making it look like a taped show.
To me, it’s the lighting. It almost looked green screened to me for a bit, because the sculpted foreground lighting and the flat (natural) background lighting on the stadium were so different. I don’t know if that’s what you’re reacting to, but that’s what it was for me. I mean, these things are usually lit, but the lighting was a bit more dramatic than I’m used to seeing in video.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2016, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-halftime-show/745506/10 "2016-02-08T01:48:01Z")
I liked it a lot. Then again, I love Coldplay.
I could have done without anyone else, though.
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2016, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-halftime-show/745506/11 "2016-02-08T01:49:02Z")
> [@chicagowhitesox1173](#):
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> I don’t get the theme. It’s suppose to be old, present and new. Is Cold Play considered old?
British. What the hell with a bunch of Poms playing at the Super Bowl???
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### Author:  [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2016, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-halftime-show/745506/12 "2016-02-08T01:49:22Z")
> [@running\_coach](#):
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> 1. Yes.
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> 😃
I’d say 2000, when Yellow came out, but still yes.
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### Author:  [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2016, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-halftime-show/745506/13 "2016-02-08T01:53:35Z")
The play left me cold.
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2016, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-halftime-show/745506/14 "2016-02-08T01:54:23Z")
> [@Daddypants](#):
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> The play left me cold.
You need to chill out and have a Pepsi.
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### Author:  [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2016, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-halftime-show/745506/15 "2016-02-08T01:56:42Z")
> [@pulykamell](#):
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> To me, it’s the lighting. It almost looked green screened to me for a bit, because the sculpted foreground lighting and the flat (natural) background lighting on the stadium were so different. I don’t know if that’s what you’re reacting to, but that’s what it was for me. I mean, these things are usually lit, but the lighting was a bit more dramatic than I’m used to seeing in video.
That makes sense. It’s rare for a Super Bowl halftime to have any natural daylight at all.
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2016, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-halftime-show/745506/16 "2016-02-08T02:08:38Z")
It also looked weird because during the first song everyone in the stands were holding red and yellow placards I think. It looked, at first glance, like empty red and yellow seats.
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### Author:  [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2016, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-halftime-show/745506/17 "2016-02-08T02:10:48Z")
> [@pulykamell](#):
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> To me, it’s the lighting. It almost looked green screened to me for a bit, because the sculpted foreground lighting and the flat (natural) background lighting on the stadium were so different. I don’t know if that’s what you’re reacting to, but that’s what it was for me. I mean, these things are usually lit, but the lighting was a bit more dramatic than I’m used to seeing in video.
My reaction as well - I couldn’t figure out why, but I think you’re right about the lighting. I kept thinking that it seemed like people were edited into the shot.
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### Author:  [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2016, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-halftime-show/745506/18 "2016-02-08T02:12:06Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#):
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> It also looked weird because during the first song everyone in the stands were holding red and yellow placards I think. It looked, at first glance, like empty red and yellow seats.
Related to my question in the OP, why do people in the stands do that? Come halftime, I’m going to the bathroom, and then buy a bratwurst and a beer. I’m not going to sit there and flash placards.
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### Author:  [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2016, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-halftime-show/745506/19 "2016-02-08T02:26:22Z")
BTW extremely ummemorable performances all around IMO.
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### Author:  [@chicagowhitesox1173](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chicagowhitesox1173)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2016, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-halftime-show/745506/20 "2016-02-08T02:30:03Z")
Lady GaGa had em all beat.
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